Summer is a few weeks away and my Junior Summer Camp preparations are done. The kids are going to have a blast, blasting away with me in camp.
Working with kids golfing is a joy that never ends. The surprised smiles and the creative ideas they have always lead to a great play.
Each week there is a new group and each week the campers find a special place in my heart, entering from every dimension possible. Personality road blocks to the "oh oh oh oh I knows". Then there is the one who listens when the teacher is there and who hears when the student is ready.
That brings a student to the fore front. His younger brother was effortlessly beating him on every hole. I saw the huge disappointment on the struggling brothers sleeve. I pulled him aside to show him that some day with his high school or college golf these same feelings were going to come back to him when he could not afford to loose. The challenge was to see, accept the feeling and find the solution. To learn from the golf he and his brother were playing and make the changes needed to feel the way he had intended to feel. He then started to see that all was not lost and the new was there to gain.
A mother called to book her son for camp, she said that her son choose me out of many golf camps because I pushed him to play beyond what he knew was his potential. Yes the water is there and so is the green!
The week flies by with fun, challenging, rewarding new flight adventures that are a gift of a life time, fore the junior and their pro.
Come on teachers let the kids go!
Cathy Schmidt Golf
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